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Entertainment Weekly goes Comic-Con Crazy! Here's your first look at their Watchmen Cover!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. The good folks at Entertainment Weekly asked if we wanted to premiere their brand spankin' new cover for their upcoming Comic-Con issue hitting stands this weekend. When they said it featured new looks at the Watchmen characters... well, that's all I needed.
Below you'll see the cover (Dr. Manhattan is just awesome... after the trailer and the below images, I'm completely sold on Crudup there... Ozymandias... I'm not so sure about) and you can also check out their Watchmen article online here, with even more images. Supposedly there will be sneak peaks at Terminator and Star Trek, too, so it should be a good issue to check out...
While you're waiting, here's the cover. Click to make big.
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THAT COVER IS DOPE AND IM SECOND TO POST
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Hmmm. Must investigate later.
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Manhattan looks awesome. Crudup really surprised me in that trailer.
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i wrote it in haste and i am apparently not second. Ozymandias looks terrible btw
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Everything looks pretty silly. Have you ever seen the batsuit up close? It doesn't look like much.
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Jul 17, 2008 7:26:23 PM CDT
I didn't wanna say it in the Trailer TB
by the guy who slept through everything.
but I am not diggin' Ozymandias, and could you imagine if Tom Cruise had said yes?
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If it is.. fire the graphic designer already. I mean, come on!
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i'm curious what they will think.
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..."Yeesh." I'm glad it looks better in the trailer.
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Lets go! Start it up! I think this looks kick ass.
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they're supposed to look like idiots in costumes if they aren't jumping off buildings and doing superheroish type stuff. thats why they look dumb.or at least thats what i hope Snider(sp?) was going for.
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i'm trying so hard not to get my hopes up.
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These are human beings who act like superheros its supposed to look stylized and forced. Any normal person who would try to be a superhero would always miss the mark. They missed it. Zach Nailed It!
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Jul 17, 2008 7:35:34 PM CDT
will this be billed as any other superhero movie?
by gatsbys west egg omlet
as far as mass marketing goes? will people go in looking for Spidey and come out never wanting to see another superhero movie again?that would be awesome.
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..with such an ugly cover! Good thing there's the trailer too
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Everything else looks good to me. I wish Comedian was a bit beefier but that would be nitpicking. Ozy sucks in a major way, though.
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Forget about magazine covers and photo shoots of the characters, as the people doing them ARE NOT the same people doing the movie. Hence, different lighting and mood. (Snyder would be too busy to overlook photo shots like these). That said, this cover is nice.
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Yeah - I've calmed down a bit and am trying to convince myself that there is still time to replace and reshoot. Looks like Ziggy Stardust-era Bowie. Comedian appears to have just received his scar in the linked pics - I never thought that would be left in.
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and they say the climax is "a bit different" LET THE OVEREXAGERATING SHIT STORM BEGIN!!
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That dude better be a GREAT actor. The trailer was pretty cool, too.
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I guess I can forgive that, though.
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ya i know, im like the old guy who screams at the kids to get off his lawn, and the first couple years after the con got discovered by hollywood were pretty cool, as more hot chicks who wouldnt look twice at guys like me, were showing up...but dang it...i miss the days of registering at the last minute and having the room to breath on the floor, and being able to leisurely talk to all the artists and writers...and so, i dont go anymore
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nipples on ozy's suit...nuff said
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Jul 17, 2008 7:44:00 PM CDT
Lucky for us, Ozzy isn't in the costume for much of the comic.
by skidmarkedundies
Therefore, he shouldn't be in the costume for much of the flick.
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if you notice in the trailer, the quotation marks around the word '300' were misplaced. they should be around 'visionary'.
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Jul 17, 2008 7:50:41 PM CDT
Whats important is that Matthew Goode is a very good actor
by industrykiller!
Look perfect or not (and it's not THAT far off) it's the performance that counts. I'd rather have a good actor that is a bit thin for the role than a mediocre one that looks identical. Seriously if you haven't seen Goode in The Lookout then rent it. He's fantastic.
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... and there's nothing wrong with that. But most people have never heard of "Watchmen". I hope they succeed. Looks great.
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for the mass of movie goers that never heard of Watchmen or have no interest... it looks goofy. It has "Sin City" written all over it(but maybe for some that is not a bad thing).
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Which was broken by 27 Dresses, I guess, didn't see it, but she gets naked alot and, considering all the fuckin' Silk Spectre does in the comic, she'll keep it up here.
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but Dr. Manhattan looks fucking PERFECT.
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Like someone who should be hosting Project Runway or something. Is his catchphrase "Fabulous" or "Fierce"?
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IDK i never really liked a bloated movie full of superheroes but this might be cool who knows we'll just have to wait and see.
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I cannot wait for this movie.
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Amazing, A New Hope! The fact that it looks like Crudup is in makeup and not cgi makes me giddy. Morgan looks fucking perfect...FUCKING PERFECT! as the Comedian, I always saw him as Ron Pearlman but not anymore. I don't like Ozymandias's mask but I don't think he wears it much, if at all, in the actual story. Whoever designed this cover knows they're watchmen too, this is almost a literal translation of one of the few "team shots" of the modern group of characters. Ohh I hope this trailer is attached to Dark Knight tonight, please god!
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fantastic trailer snyderman!
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Doesn't look like an original cast photo as much as a mass photoshop job done using some publicity kit materials. I think its a definite 180 from the visual awe of the trailer.
Actually, this reminds me of EW's cover featuring the cast of the first X-Men movie back in 1999, with the cast in full costumes and makeup. That looked pretty fucking atrocious and amateurish as well (yea it wasn't that great on film either, but still). -
...is the coolest thing EVER!!!!!!!
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God what a cheesy cover.
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Might as well have cast Rob Lowe
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but that cover is fuggish as hell!
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an egotistical nut who lived in a paradise of his own creation like some self-appointed God? Going by that I'd say taking his suit up a notch for the film not only works but is a great idea... again, maybe I need to re-read it.
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didn't exist for the filming, but couldn't the cover mock-up have been better than gauze with some daubs of paint? And Ozymandias with mask looks even more like "Batman and Robin" than he did without.
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Yes, Veidt is a god unto himself in his world, but he's also supposed to be a man of great taste and the whole point of his Ozymandias outfit was that it reflected classical sculpture and the like. I believe he thought of his image as something like Greek sculpture or Michelangelo's "David."
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Visually, everything is just so spot-on....except Adrian Veidt.
Nothing against Matthew Goode - I thought he was fine in "Match Point" - but Snyder's Ozymandias just looks wrong. And I was thinking that even before this EW cover made him look freakish.
Goode's only 30, so he's too young for Veidt, for starters. But setting that aside ... I accept that the purply tunic and gold accoutrement from the comics probably didn't translate well to live-action, but still, they couldn't do any better than this?
I mean, they made changes to Dan and Sally, but they still have the flavor of their comic analogues. Veidt? Not so much.
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..but the trailer was so awesome. Even the character reveal pics they gave us looked cheesy. Some of them look spot on, but others like Oz are a lost cause... I don't think there's ANY way you could've made him look decent without completely abandoning the source material(something I don't think they intend on doing). I think the thing I'm most curious about is how this film will be perceived. It definitely gives a much more serious vibe than Sin City/300/The Spirit, but I'm curious to see if that's how the average moviegoer will perceive it as.
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in the enlarged image. Love it!
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He's supposed to look like Robert Redford. Obviously Redford is too damn old to play him now, but they should have gotten someone to exude that sort of presence. Look closely at the comic- that's Robert Redford. Classy, intelligent, dignified, worldly. I don't know who the fuck Matthew Goode is, but he's no Redford.
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from Laverne and Shirley. Michael McKean, that's his name.
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I am hoping Snyder had a very good reason for the casting - perhaps this guy will turn out to be a great actor, but just from first impressions he does indeed look too boyish/weak/fragile...
Many have said it, but Ozy is Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and a young Redford all rolled into one. He's the good looking guy who everyone loves and nobody suspects... even if they couldnt afford Pitt or Cruise, go with the next down and get Jackman, Bale or Mortensen... -
...correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't Doc Manhattan the only one of them with *real* superpowers in the comic, Viedt was as old as the others and had merely kept himself in peak physical shape. If Viedt is going to be younger in the movie then they have either moved around the timeline or he has "non aging" powers in the movie.
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Doc Manhattan looks fucking awesome. Nite Owl kicks ass (which maybe he shouldnt, but it looks great to me - im hoping we at least get a scene of him either squeezing into or taking off the costume and not being in too great a shape under all the armor), Rorscach enough said - all in all, I think it's 80-90% looking like a home run for fans of the comic who don't mind a few things being tweaked. The only potential disaster for me is how they deal with the ending, I hear it has been changed, but does anyone know how exactly?
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Jul 17, 2008 10:49:23 PM CDT
The reason some look younger then they are supposed to....
by batshtcrazy
Last year at comic con they mentioned they went for younger actors to play the main leads because it was easier to age them through make up then get older actors and try to make them look younger in flashbacks. Viedt isn't looking too good but the rest look pretty good..I'm hoping it's a good movie
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While Veidt in the GN had no powers, per se, he was supposed to be a sort of ideal man. He worked out, meditated, ate right, exercised body and mind, but he had an advantage. Moore didn't explain this in the story, but the bonus material in the Absolute the Graphitti editions suggest Veidt is a mutant in the true sense. He has, for unknown reasons, a trait his parents did not and the larger population does not - a much higher physical and mental potential. The notes - originally a list - read "Thunderbolt (Ozymandias): 10x human intelligence; young 37 will live to 150; Redford, Kennedy; popular celebrity; rich; perfect; loner; 'prescient' through intelligence; sees world as organism with him at centre." He must work at staying fit and keeping his mind sharp and remaining rich, but for him it's about as difficult as a jog around the block and writing an email are for a typical human.
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From the last script I saw, by Alex Tse, the primary change is that the "extradimensional alien" does not "accidentally" appear in NYC to shock the world out of its war fever. Instead, Veidt kills millions around the world with a simulation of Manhattan's powers.
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...or since Mr. Beaks came back, everyone has stepped up their A game? Maybe it's a coincidence, but AICN has had a fun couple of weeks lately.
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I heard the comic was great, but this is the gayest group of characters I;ve ever seen, lol.
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They should have never been presented in that way. They look like rejects from Batman & Robin
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I actually read that for Manhattan, Crudup was in a motion capture suit and had about 150 motion balls on his face. He's quoted as saying that he had to keep referencing a picture for his facial performance, and if he caught sight of his reflection, the illusion was crushed.
All in all, I thought the trailer was about the best geek-fest I've had all year!!!
Can't wait of next March!. And I hope they release that comicon footage for those of us unlucky to go. *hint hint* -
I didn't panic about the new costume designs, and the minutemen-era photo from awhile back was a home run as far as I'm concerned. But this cover just looks awful. Nite Owl looks like he's made of cheap plastic, and the less said about Ozymandias the better. Everything about him looks shifty and his expression suggests nothing except life-threatening constipation. Rorsarch and Doc Manhattan look solid, but if these are the publicity stills they've chosen for the cover of Variety... yikes. Hopefully this is just a few unfortunate stills and a crappy slapped-together cover, but it makes everything about these characters look cheap and like its trying to hard to be hip. Now that comic/ superhero movies are cool again, I really hope they don't push "Watchmen" as a wiz-bang superhero extravaganza, but that's what this image suggests to me. Please! Get some tasteful lighting and don't just throw a bunch of cheasy-looking super-suits at the world. . . Still, Doc Manhattan DOES look pretty great, don't he?
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That cover looks terribly fake/photoshopped. Not good for grabbing new fans, that's for sure.
Not to upset the purists, but was it really necessary to dye Matthew Goode's hair blond. I mean, when they cast him I thought he was a great choice because he's a fantastic actor, has the perfect voice, and has "pretty boy" looks. But he has dark hair. He would've fit the role just fine with that black hair. Now he just looks distractingly weird. -
...From about the time that Captain Metropolis tried to form the Crimebusters. Veidt/Oz no longer wore his mask in 1985. And The Comedian didn't have his big-ass scar yet.
The photo is clearly based on this Dan Gibbons illustration: http://tinyurl.com/5gpeh5
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All the same, I'm right.
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Damn
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just saying, remove the lady and you got the new Village People line-up.
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but how is the article behind the cover?
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http://tinyurl.com/5m2hzz
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Thanks for the link. I imagine Mr. Moore won't so much as watch this movie, but I for one am quite hopeful about it.
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Why is the Silver Surfer in this again?
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means nothing to so many people. this is going to be a marketing chore. basically word of mouth from the geeks taking it up.so, for those of you who haven't read it, do so.
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How can you get so many things right, yet have a complete blind spot regarding Ozymandius?The kid's too young, too scrawny and that costume is just shit. EVERYBODY is telling you this.Reshoot, man! Do it now!
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'The End Is The Beginning Is The End' by the Smashing Pumpkins. Last time this was in a movie was in that shitfest Batman and Robin. Another similarity I thought are the eyepieces The Comedian and Ozymandias are wearing, something Batgirl and Robin wore.
Please let this be the only similarities, cause this trailer looks great.
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Moore is a Mighty Boosh fan? Wish I could unread that.
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Ozymandis is totally wrong.
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Even the "Badass" with the cigar looks like fruit loops
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...Doc Manhatten's emo eye makeup. Rorschach apparently being portrayed by Verne Troyer. Silk Spectre's off-the-rack, Frederick's of Hollywood costume (Well, actually I DO dig it... but for the wrong reasons). Schneider from One Day At A Time. Nite Owl's Joel Schumacher action outfit. Ozymandias being played by a guy who looks like a grown-up Jay North/Dennis the Menace. But I'll ease up on the fanboy bitching for now and see how everything plays out.
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Kid Z, I'm there with you on most of your observations, but Jon's eyes are exactly as they appear in the GN. And Rorschach looks so short because this photo roughly recreates the famous Gibbons promo image with the group arranged like this. He's just positioned lower.
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Does he look like the book? No. But he looks like a fucking cowardly pussy who is bat-shit timid insane. And if I remember correctly...that's how he was in the book. I hate that little slimebag anyway.
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It's "The Beginning is the End is the Beginning" which is a REMIX of "The End is the Beginning is the End" which was on the shit-tacular Batman and Robin soundtrack. And it won a Grammy. Go figure.
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Night Owl is supposed to be fat. Where's the fat Dan?
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Veidt is not a fucking cowardly pussy who is bat-shit timid insane. That's the whole point. He's brilliant, bold, brave, and hyperrational. Were he any of the things you say, he couldn't ever have become Ozymandias, much less the post-Ozymandias Adrian Veidt. He's all the more chilling because he's so enlightened and completely ruthless. His physical appearance is supposed to reflect his public image - he's a fucking Greek god with some Egyptian tossed in. Think that asshole from the old "Star Trek" episode, but utterly noble. Snyder's choice is wrong, wrong, wrong.
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supposedly, Dreiberg out of costume looks a bit pudgy. He'd look a bit pudgy in costume except that he's wearing armor that pushes his gut in rather than knits that reveal it. The armor is still wrong, wrong, wrong. This nonsense about Snyder using costumes to deconstruct superhero movies doesn't hold up. Moore and Gibbons deconstructed superheroes. They deconstructed COMIC BOOK superheroes because that's where the superheroes were, and they deconstructed a 15-years-dead Silver Age. Don't set a film in 1987 and deconstruct costume styles that didn't exist in the real world until 1995.
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Seriously, as depicted he looks like somebody who has taken more balls to the chin than Johnny Bench. Everyone else looks pretty good though.
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Possible spoilers for the book:
90% of the book, you're thinking "wow, this guy is hardcore" what with all the crazy physical displays of peak fitness, and the astronomical intelligence. But in the end, and while there is a hint of truth to his "plan," he just ends up being another crazy whack-job. A cowardly whack-job, as well. Note the horror on his face when he sees that he didnt kill Doc Manhattan. When he catches the bullet, the only reason he isnt scared is because it was like a goddamn experiment...he didnt know if it would work either way. Killing the comedian thing...cowardly. The cold meticulous machinations behind closed doors...cowardly. Hell, even Nite-Owl has a bigger pair, and for most of the book he's portrayed as a little loopy. I know how Ozymandias was supposed to be like, and I know that he is this "hyper-rational" god-among-men, but by the end, all he is is a little bitch. And that's what I see in this picture...even though it's a Crimebusters pic from the past.
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I still don't think he's a bitch. I think he's a hero. A completely fucked-up hero, a hero who made massively wrong choices, but a hero who did what he thought was right, what he saw only he could do. When I read "Watchmen" for the first time I had to ponder whether what he did was wrong. Twenty years later I've decided it was, but it's a fine ethical point. As for cowardly, how was he supposed to pull off the plan? Put a big ad in the Times?
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My main problem with the casting and the looks of Ozymandias we've seen so far... he looks shifty, sneaky, effeminate, and evil. Veidt in the book is the exact opposite of that. He's certainly not insane, nor has he not considered the moral aspects of his action... in fact, he's agonized over it. You can debate whether or not he does the right thing. But the book's implication that maybe he DOES do the right thing will be completely lost if he looks like a pansy villian from the start. Veidt's success was a result of his near-superhuman charisma, intellegence, and strength. He's not evil any more than Rorsharch is evil... they both do evil things as the result of their unfliching devotion to their own code of morality. Veidt does what he does because he believes it's the only alternative to complete destruction... and the scary thing is he may be right. He's the only person who has the strength to take the horrific responsibility for doing the only sane thing there is to do... at least from his perspective. That's why Veidt is interesting... and that's why I'm doubtful of Snyder's interpretation of him. But the jury's still out until we see some real acting. If he's simply the stock supervillian he would be without his unequivocal good qualities... count me dissapointed.
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or does "The Comedian" remind anyone else of snyder from "One day at a Time"
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No to make the same point again and again, but that's it precisely. And it is Veidt's stereotypically heroic looks and history that belie his murderous behavior and make it possible. No one looks too closely at the smartest, most noble man in the world. Matthew Goode looks devious, especially in that mask. I'll stop now.
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But if you don't know the comic (like me, but I'm gonna change that) those costumes look fucking stupid. People dressed up in customs outside of that world always looks dumb, like a sailor in uniform at Barnes in noble stupid.
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I really like the cover. It does have a cheesy quality to it, but the characters fit the likeness of the comics so damn well. I hope if this makes mucho bucks that maybe there would be an X-Men movie where the characters wear the costumes from the comics. YEAH! I know these things don’t translate well to live action, but I in my small world I would love to see it.
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